Last night’s storm was fierce! The winds were pretty scary at times (gusting up to 67 mph!) and driving around today, I saw considerable damage to property, power lines, trees, fences and signs. Tree crews are working all over the city to clean up the damage. It’s a mess out there!

In addition to wind damage, there is flooding everywhere. (Sump pumps are working overtime, for sure). At one house, their front lawn looked like a pond! And, yes, if ducks had been swimming in it, I wouldhave taken a photo. 🙂

Not wanting to deal with all the mayhem, I headed over to Lynch Park to watch the waves. And watch was pretty much all I could do as the rough surf and wind made it too treacherous for me to attempt any real photography. Shame, the waves were incredible.

So, I continued to walk around the park and came upon a drain in a stone wall that usually puts out little more than a trickle.

It was! Very scary, indeed! I had to update the post because I just saw the news and our winds gusted to 67mph! I believe it! We got 3.2″ of rain! If that were snow, it would have been 67″ of snow – holy cow!

Sadly, it is raining again. We just can’t cut a break. 😦

Thank you for your comments! I much like the title myself. 😉 I did shoot it from a bunch of angles, but I can’t from up above since the wall isn’t that wide and it has a chain-link fence on it at that point. I run into that all the time here it seems…I see amazing potential in subjects but there will be just crap all around it. Sucks!

Thanks, Scott. Where are you located? The winds certainly have disbanded but the flooding is what is the issue now. If the weather isn’t too bad tomorrow I hope to check out the waves again. Maybe this time, I’ll be able to capture something!

As far as Michaela’s mathematical question…I was just quoting what they said on the news: 3.2 inches of rain = 67 inches of snow. I’m no meteorologist, but, I imagine the calculation isn’t straightforward and has many factors to it! 🙂 And, Mother Nature must have heard Micheala’s ‘rain, rain go away’ mantra because, this morning, she has sent SNOW!! Arrgh!

Wow it sounds like these was a lot of damage in the area, flooding is the pits because it usually involves so much work to clean up and does so much damage. I hope that no one was hurt. Nature often gives us some beautiful photos after some wild weather, this photo is no exception. Wonderful textural qualities.

As far as I know, no one was hurt. There were houses damaged by falling trees (saw on the news). For us, it is just a mess of branches in the yard that we won’t get to clean up until spring. Thank you for your comments on the post! I wanted to find a subject that would tie in what was happening here without being too literal. If I were better at editorial photos, I suppose I could have posted the downed trees. I shot some, but it simply isn’t my style and I always think ‘yuck‘ when I look at them! However, they will get filed into the 2010 Feb Storm folder for posterity’s sake! 🙂

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